ROX N° |
012 |
MONTH |
October 2016 |
ARTIST |
Hiss Golden Messenger |
TITLE |
Heart Like a Levee |
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE |
07.10.2016 |
REISSUE DATE |
– |
EDITION |
Limited Edition Deluxe Vinyl (2000) + DL
Deluxe LPs include a second album, Vestapol, with full art and a 12” x 24” poster. |
DESCRIPTION |
DC Taylor’s sixth album as Hiss Golden Messenger finds him expanding his musical and emotional horizons even further from his country-folk baseline, inspired by a sense of growing conflict between the competing demands of his music and his family.
‘Heart Like a Levee’ was conceived partially as a collaboration with documentary photographer William Gedney’s portraits taken at a Kentucky mining camp in 1972, one of which – a striking image of a young boy – adorns the album cover, setting the scene for a set of songs that mine the past in the American south. Composed during the same period of time as ‘Heart Like a Levee’, Vestapol is an intimate collection of eight previously unreleased songs—performed and recorded almost entirely by M.C. Taylor in various motels on the road and at his home in Durham, NC—dealing with exile, guilt, forgiveness, and trust. |
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